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  1. Japanese Success At Pearl Harbor - Japan Still Doomed?

    I've notice a general consensus on this board that in a timeline where Japan gets lucky and strikes Pearl Harbor when the carrier fleet is there and sinks or damages most or all of the carrier fleet, Japan is STILL bound to lose the war. I'm curious as to why this is. Did America have the...

  2. The Phantom Fleet

    Okay, so, I had my own Alternate History dream last night. It was pretty ASB in most aspects, but I'll explain what I knew. My dream was being narrated by some guy who had an accent I couldn't place, and he told me part of the story of the world. There was some native state that seemed...

  3. Only One Tower Hit?

    Yes, another 9/11 WI. Please bear with it, it'll be over soon. So, say something goes wrong with the plot; Either one group of terrorists doesn't manage to get onto the plane, or the crew and passengers pull a Flight 93 and crash the plane into Hudson bay, or something. Only one plane...

  4. Introducing European Disease To The Americas

    Okay, so, I think it can be agreed that one of the biggest helps to European conquest of the Americas were the plagues they brought with them that completely wiped out most of the native populations. So, let's say some Basque fishermen or your discoverer-of-the-Americas of choice somehow with...

  5. 9/11 Doesn't Happen

    Two potential scenarios, here: 1. Through some insane, ASB-levels of luck, all of the hijackers are caught at airport security. They reveal their plots and their connections to Al Qaeda. 2. The 9/11 attacks are called off, nobody finds out about the plans. There MAY be future attacks, but...

  6. Keep The Summer Of Love Going

    I'm curious as to how you could either or both strengthen or lengthen the hippie movement in late 60's/early 70's America. I was thinking something like butterflying away Manson so he doesn't end up giving such a bad name to the hippies, but is there any other way to keep this movement going...

  7. Would Zeppelins Have EVER Been Widespread?

    I've noticed that a popular sentiment in ATLs in the early 1900s is somehow getting Zeppelin and Airships more widely used, as combat aircraft and civilian aircraft. But, let's be realistic here. No matter the timelines (CP victory in WWI, Axis victory in WWII) would zeppelins have ever...

  8. WWI Entente Victory With Russia Still In?

    Say somehow, someway, Russia manages to NOT drop out of the war with Brest-Livotsk and stays in until Germany surrenders. What does the peace treaty and post-war world look like?

  9. William IV has a legitimate heir.

    Exactly what it says on the tin. This would prevent the disconnect of Great Britain and Hanover, am I correct? What sort of effects (I'm sure their rather large) does this have on politics in Germany, specifically unification politics? What are the effects in Britain? Will the British be...

  10. How to make Britain a Republic BESIDES Cromwell?

    What it says on the tin.

  11. Lenin Successor That ISN'T Stalin or Trotsky?

    I've noticed that, whenever Lenin's death comes up, people tend to think only either Stalin or Trotsky could have succeeded him. But what about other successors? I know Stalin and Trotsky weren't THE only major players in Soviet Russia at the time? What about somebody like Bukharin?

  12. What's with the Normans?

    Okay, so, I request a small bit of education here. As I understand, the Norman people started in, well, Normandy. I'm probably wrong in that, as they probably came from somewhere else and then just named that land after themselves. What I also understand, though, is that the Normans had a...

  13. Possible To Get A Third Party Candidate Into The White House?

    The President Perot timeline has me thinking... Are there any other times in American electoral history when it would be possible to get a candidate not from either major party (Including Pre-1900, with Whigs and Democrats and the like.) elected to the White House?

  14. How much more lucky could the Axis have been in WWII?

    As the general consensus on this board is, the Axis in WWII were EXTREMELY lucky and got much further than they reasonably should have. A lot of timelines involve them being less lucky than OTL, but I'm curious: Say the Axis has ALL the luck in the world; How much will infinite luck carry...

  15. Byzantium Survives - Effects On Age Of Exploration?

    Okay, so, as I understand it, and feel free to correct me, the MAIN reason a lot of the stuff that happened in the Age of Exploration happened is because Europeans were trying to find an alternate route to the spices and other goods of India, China, Etc. that WASN'T controlled by extremely...

  16. How much of OTL can be considered "ASB".

    Let's say you're somebody from an ATL looking at the entire history of OTL. Which parts of it would you consider to be absolutely ASB? Should a little village of farmers in the Italian peninsula be able to rise to the point of conquering most of the known world? Should a prophet in the...

  17. Possible To Get A Not Base 10 Numeric System Widely Used?

    Exactly what it says on the tin. Is it at all possible to get a numeral system that ISN'T base-10 used by the majority of the world? Any POD you wish, as far back as you wish.

  18. At All Possible For The U.S. To Get 54-40 In Oregon Country?

    What it says on the tin. Is there any chance the British would be willing to give up the land up to the extreme U.S. claim of the 54-40 parallel? In fact, on that matter, could you see the British get land down to their extreme claim of the 40 parallel?

  19. 3M continues producing disk storage?

    Interesting thing I learned in one of my computer classes today. 3M, the people most famous for making sticky notes, once produced about 1.5 foot in diameter computer disks. Basically CDs, but fucktons bigger. Also with a different way of writing, but I won't bore you with technical details...

  20. Lenin's Strokes Delayed Five Years?

    Let's say that, through some miracle of medicine, Vladimir Lenin's strokes are delayed for five years. He has his first stroke in May of 1927 instead of May of 1922, the second in December of 1927, and the third one in March of 1928. He dies in January of 1929. How would this have changed the...
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